Baby death expert wins appeal

Professor Sir Roy Meadow has won his appeal against being struck off the medical register over his "erroneous" evidence at the Sally Clark infant deaths murder trial.

It was testimony by the then high-flying paediatrician that helped convict Mrs Clark of murdering her two children - a verdict that was later quashed.

The 73-year-old professor was found guilty last July by the General Medical Council of serious professional misconduct.

But at a London High Court hearing in January, Nicola Davies, representing the professor, told Mr Justice Collins that the decision to erase his name from the medical register was unfair.

Professor Meadow, who appealed against the decision of the GMC and its punishment, was attacked for his written and oral evidence at Mrs Clark's criminal trial.

He was formerly acclaimed as an expert in the field of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Sids) and how such deaths could be differentiated from children harmed by their parents - so-called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

He gave evidence that the risk of two infants dying naturally of Sids in a household such as Mrs Clark's was effectively one in 73 million.